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NrTED STATES JAMES G. SMITH, OF ALLIANCE, OHIO.

FIRE-PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,370, dated January 4, 1881. Application flied october 23, naso. modem' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES Gr. SMITH, ot' Alliance, in the county of Stark and State ot' Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Open Stoves and Fire-Places; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication, and to the letters and gures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a front view of this invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section, and Fig. 3 is a detail.

rIhis invent-ion relates to open stoves and rc-places; and it consists in constructing the grate and hot-air flues ot' sectional tubes and couplings, whereby the air entering the open tubes may be heated and discharged into the same and an adjacent room, as may be desired, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the fire-place, of any Well-known construction; and B B B, curved tubes rising from couplings d at the rear of the hollow grate-bars D, and following the conformation ot' the back wall and top ot' the replace, as shown. These tiues or tubes B have discharge openings j' at their upper ends, which may be controlled by dalnpers, it' desired.

E designates a discharge-tube leading from each ofthe tubes or lues B, through the back wall, or at any other suitable point, into an adjacent room to that in which the tire-place is located.

A coupling, d, is employed at the front end of each ofthe hollow grate-bars D, and rising 4o therefrom is a vertical tube or hot-air flue, C,

having at its upper end a curved flue or discharge, c. The coupling d is open at its outer end for the admission of cold air to the tube or hollow grate-bar D.

Any desired. number of tlues, tubes, and grate-bars may be employed. I have shown three only.

rIhe tubesD and couplings d d and tubes C form the grate.

The cold air enters at d, passes through the tubes D, B, and O, and is heated during its passage, and discharged into the same or the adjoining room.

Dampers or valves may be employed to control the discharge ends of the ilues; but this is a mattei' ot' course, and does not require illustration herein.

I ani aware that conduct-ing and distributing pipes are not broadly new in furnaces and the like, that hollow grate-bars are old, and that grates have been constructed of both solid and hollow bars, and I desire only to claim herein the construction shown and described.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

In an open stove or tire-place, the combination ot' the dues or tubes B, E, and C, having discharge-openings, as shown, and the hollow grate-bars 1) and couplingsd d', the couplings d forming the inlet-openings for the admission ot' cold air to the grate and tubes or ues, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my naine in the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES G. SMITH.

Witnesses:

JUDsoN D. LEWIS, A. A. GrLEs. 

